Brookside Dairy Limited, often referred to as Brookside Dairies, is a dairy processing company in Kenya, the largest economy in the East African Community. The company offers fresh pasteurized milk, cream, butter, yogurt, ghee, and long life milk products in Indian Ocean Islands, East Africa, Rwanda and Burundi. It provides products through distribution depots, agents, and sub agents to outlets in East Africa.

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The head office of Brookside Dairies is located along Thika Road in Ruiru, approximately 28 kilometres (17 mi), by road, northeast of Nairobi, the capital and largest city in Kenya.[2] The coordinates of the company headquarters are:1°10'42.0"S, 36°57'30.0"E (Latitude:-1.178333; Longitude:36.958333).[3]

Brookside Dairies is the largest milk processing company in Kenya,[4][5] where it controls 45 percent of the dairy market, as at January 2016.[6][5] The company's products, including fresh and powdered milk, yogurt and butter,[7] are distributed in the East African countries of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.[1]

In May 2015, Brookside Dairies paid Ksh3.5 billion (about US$40 million) for 51 percent shareholding in Sameer Agriculture & Livestock Limited, a dairy processing company in neighboring Uganda, in which the Ugandan government maintains a 49 percent shareholding.[12][14] In January 2016, the Kenyan press reported that the company had plans to expand to West Africa, starting with Nigeria.[6]